Bed, &amp;c.



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GUSTAVE BENNETT, 0F JERSEY CITY, NEW JERSEY.

BED, &o.

Application filed March 13, 1913.

To all 107mm it may concern:

Be it known that I, GUsTAvn BENNETT, a citizen of the United States,residing at Jersey City, in the county of Hudson and State of NewJersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Beds, &c.,of which the following is a specification.

My present invention is an improved releasable support for a slidingmember. I have illustrated my invention as being used in connection witha crib or bed to releasably support the vertically slidable sides orgates of the crib. The merit of my invention is the ease with which thedevice can be operated to move the movable object, such as the gate ofthe crib, into or out of supporting or closed position. There are no setscrews or catches to be manipulated by the operator because all he hasto do is to take hold of the gate and slide it up or down to effect thedesired result.

The drawings show only one of the specific forms which my improvementsare adapted to take, and in them Figure 1 is an elevation of part of oneside of a crib embodying my invention; Fig. 2 shows the upper right handcorner of the devices of Fig. 1 on an enlarged scale, and further showsthe side of the casing broken away to reveal the parts otherwiseconcealed; Fig. 3 is a section on the line 3 in Fig. 2 looking in thedirection of the arrows, and shows by the full lines the spring partslocated in their normal position when upholding the gate of the crib;Fig. 4 is the same Fig. 3 except that it shows the spring parts in thepositions occupied when the gate is being lowered; Fig.- 5 is ahorizontal section on the line 55 in Fig. 2 looking in the direction ofthe arrows; and Fig. 6 is a face view of the spring 17 de tached fromthe casing.

I will now describe the specific devices of the drawings, reserving itto the claim to point out the novel features and to define the scope ofthe invention, it being understood that the claim will be given the duerange of equivalents to which it may be entitled in view of the art.

1 is one of the corner posts of a crib; 2 is one of the side bars of theframe of the crib; 3 is one of the vertically sliding sides of the cribhaving the usual eyes 4 sliding on the usual vertical guide rod 5secured in spaced relation to the bedpost 1.

My invention resides in the devices com Specification of Letters Patent.

PatentedJuly 13, 1915.

Serial No. 753,922.

prised in the casing 6 cooperating with a pin projecting from the uppereye 4 working in a vertical slot 8 (see Fig. 5) in the front 10 of thecasing. Figs. 3 and 4 show the front of the casing removed, but theposition of the slot 8 is nevertheless indicated by the dotted linesbearing that numeral.

Fig. 1 shows only one end of the gate 3 and crib, but it will beunderstood that all of the above described devices are, or at any ratemay be, duplicated at the other end of the crib. Also, these may beduplicated at the ends of the sliding gate on the opposite side of thecrib.

The aforesaid casing 6 is securedrigidly to the bedpost 1 by the screws9.

l1 designates as an entirety an elbowshaped piece of spring brass orother suitable metal which comprises a stem portion 12 secured at 13 toone side of the casing, and which at its upper end has a horizontalportion 14 which the springiness of the stem 12 normally positions inthe location shown by the full lines in Fig. 3 wherein it acts as ashelf to support the pin 7, (full lines in Fig. 3) to uphold its end ofthe gate. The dotted lines in Fig. 3show how this pin 7 in the mere actof being lifted vertically along with the gate bears against theunderside of the stem portion 12, forcing the elbow spring to the rightuntil the pin is lifted above the top of the spring, whereupon it snapsback into the position shown by the full lines in Fig. 3 with thehorizontal portion 14 of the spring supporting the pin as on a shelf.This horizontal portion 14 in its movement works or plays preferablythrough a slot 15 in the side of the casing. It will be noted that thebottom edge of this slot serves to support the free end of the portion14 to prevent it from sagging downwardly under the load.

16 is a supplemental casing of any sort mounted on the side of the maincasing to conceal the working of this horizontal portion 14 of thespring through the side of the casing.

The foregoing shows how the gate is automatically locked and upheld inits raised position shown in Fig. 1 by the mere act of lifting it upinto that position. It now remains to describe the means by which thegate in equally simple manner can be released from its upheld positionand lowered.

17 designates as an entirety a leaf spring having a stem portion 18secured at its upper end 19 to the side of the casing and supporting atits lower end the head portion 20 whose upper part is longitudinallydivided from the stem. In short, this spring is substantially a T whosestem is 18 and whose head is 20, the whole being made of suitable springmetal with the head 20 able to resiliently tilt relative to the stem 18.Further, it must be stated that the pin 7 (compare Fig. 2) projects intothe casing only suflici-ently far to engage with the head 20 of thisspring, but not with its stem portion 18. Further, it will be noted fromFig.

3 that the middle portion of the head 20' of this spring bears againstthe elbow of the other spring 11; and that the upper portion of saidhead 20 is in the upward path of the pin 7 in the normal position of theparts which is that shown by the full lines in Fig. 3.

The release of the gate from its upheld position can now be understood.All that the operator needs to do is to lift the gate and with it thepin 7 still higher than its upheld position shown by the full lines inFig. 8, whereupon said pin bears against the upper head portion 20 ofthe spring 17 presses it to the left as shown in the same figure, andfinally said pin reaches the upper limit of the slot 18 wherein itclears said portion 20 which thereupon snaps back from its dotted lineposition in Fig. 3 to its full line position, wherein it crosses thepath of the pin 7 so that said pin, descending with the gate as shown inFig. 4, presses both springs to the right and out of its path, andaccordingly the gate is permitted to descend into its fully loweredposition.

As soon as the pin 7 descends below the springs, their resiliencyrestores them into the position shown by the full lines in Fig. 3 sothat, when the gate is next lifted, the pin 7 rides up into its upheldposition shown by the full lines in Fig. 3 to uphold the gate aspreviously described.

What I claim is:

In a device of the character described, a stationary casing having avertical slot, a pin working in said slot, a flat spring positioned tosupport the pin in a certain posi tion in the slot and also movable outof such supporting position, and a second flat spring having a portionbearing against said firstnamed spring and having another portion lyingin the path of movement of the pin and adapted to be moved aside by thepin in its travel, whereby the pin may be forced past said second-namedportion of the second spring, and whereby upon a reverse movement of thepin the second-named spring will be caused to move the supporting springout of the path of the pin.

In testimony whereof I atfix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

GUSTAVE BEN NETT. Witnesses E. WV. SGHERR, Jr., EDNA A. MORELAND.

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